5 Reasons Why Eating Fiber Is Really Good For You

August 29, 2015

1. Fiber Is Good For Your Brain You probably know that Fiber (Dietary Fiber) is good for weight loss, because it suppresses your appetite. This is done because of fibres affect on your brain, but did you know that adding an extra 7gm of fibre in your diet can cut and lower stroke risk by 7%? Yup it’s just another great benefit of consuming fibre in your diet.

3. Weight-loss We all have known for a long time that consuming fiber helps in weight-loss. But do we know, how much? A study shows that people who took 30g or more fiber each day lost twice as much as those who were on complicated diets, including those that restricted calories.

4. Where There Is Fiber, There Isn’t Blood Sugar Consuming fiber lowers the absorption of glucose, thus controlling blood sugar spiked and reducing the risks of diabetes.

5. The Lungs, Gut And Kidney Affair Fiber soothes inflammation in lungs, and reduces risks of inflammatory diseases like COPD. It helps aid in digestion by balancing levels of healthy bacteria in the gut. A research shows, eating more than 21g of fiber daily, lowers the risk of kidney stones by 22%

Sources: British Medical Journal; Stroke; Journal Of Nutrition; Annals Of Internal Medicine; Journal Of Urology; American Journal Of Medicine; Journal Of Molecular Biology; American Journal of Clinical Nutrition; Mayo Clinic

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